Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
BHUBANESWAR: Concerned over the death of elephants due to electrocution, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said that the State Government had prepared an elephant management plan and identified specific corridors for the pachyderms. Addressing a function to mark the 56th wildlife week here today, the Chief Minister said death of …
KOLLAM: The marine species living on earth may number between 1 million and 1.4 million, excluding microbes, according to a decade-long Census of Marine Life, the largest global research programme on marine biodiversity. The findings of the 2000-10 census were released on Monday. The census resulted in the discovery and …
Studies on the marine environment of the Kollam coast, south-west coast of India were carried out from June 2006 to May 2008 incorporating variations from pre-monsoon through monsoon to post-monsoon. The parameters studied were surface water temperature, pH, salinity, DO, turbidity, petroleum hydrocarbon content, the nutrients, namely inorganic nitrate, inorganic …
Thick, black tar balls, some of them as large as a foot in diameter, have washed ashore on Majali and Tilamati beaches, 8 kms from here. Dr Ulhas Naik and Dr Shivkumar, faculty members of the Postgraduate Centre for Marine Biology here, say this unusual phenomenon has been noticed for …
Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted. U.S. government scientists say this massive move to shore by walruses is unusual in the United States. But it has happened at least twice before, in 2007 and 2009. …
FISHERS’ folklores are full of them but the creatures of the deep sea are still a mystery. An inventory of marine species, to be released in London on October 4, would answer the age-old question— what lives in the oceans? The Census of Marine Life, a network of researchers from …
The expert committee appointed to study the quantum of loss in the fishing business and the long-term effect on aquatic life after the recent oil spill in the sea is meeting on Friday at Mantralaya. The state government has clarified that it would claim maximum compensation towards the loss to …
Margao/Panaji: While the clean-up along some of the worst tar-sullied beaches began, the sticky substance that has washed up ashore hardened into lumps on Thursday. After dead crabs, one dead dolphin, and other aquatic creatures floated to the shores along with tar balls the first couple of days, jelly like …
Vocational training to be given for fishermen Conservation measures:A team of United Nations Development Programme, New Delhi, at Kurusadai Island in Gulf of Mannar near Mandapam on Thursday. KURUSADAI ISLAND (GULF OF MANNAR): R. Srinivasan, Assistant Country Director, United Nations Development Programme, (Energy and Environment), New Delhi, said it would …
Two cargo ships collided off the Mumbai coast on August 7 causing an oil spill that spread quickly through Maharashtra's coastline. MSC Chitra ruptured its tank when it hit incoming MV Khalijia and ran aground at Colaba, near Prongs Reef Lighthouse. The vessel contained about 1,200 tonnes of fuel oil …
Humans have reduced the abundance of many large marine vertebrates, including whales, large fish, and sharks, to only a small percentage of their pre-exploitation levels. Industrial fishing and whaling also tended to preferentially harvest the largest species and largest individuals within a population. We consider the consequences of removing these …
HOW do small fish survive predators lurking in the deep ocean? Nature has its way of cautioning them. Species of fish, like mackerel, clownfish and damselfish, have a heightened sense of smell to detect threats and find shelter. Not for long though. Scientists from James Cook University in Australia said …
New Delhi: The government on Monday said legal action has been initiated against owners of the two cargo ships which collided off the Mumbai coast, resulting in oil spill endangering marine life and environment. During zero hour, environment minister Jairam Ramesh told the Rajya Sabha,
If the number of species that live on land is not fully known, our knowledge of marine life diversity is much less. Even the scanty information available is not easily accessible. The Census of Marine Life (COML), a decade-long initiative involving 2,700 scientists from 80 countries, the largest-ever collaboration of …
Leo Hickman Earlier this week, the census of marine life was published, concluding that there are more than 230,000 species in our oceans. And for every marine species known to science, at least four have yet to be discovered.For the layperson, two questions spring to mind. First, how on earth …
ALOK JHA It has been the biggest and most comprehensive attempt ever to answer that age-old question: how many fish are there in the sea?Published on 2 August, a 10-year study of the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the world's oceans, the Census of Marine Life (COML), estimates …
This is the story of how our fishermen, having taken so many fish from the seas closer to home, are now venturing to the ends of the Earth in order to maintain our insatiable appetite for seafood. This is also the story of how a group of Antarctic scientists, environmentalists, …
India has a vast extent of coast line of about 8000 km spanning 13 maritime mainland statesand Union Territories, which are home to a diversity of coastal and marine ecosystems,comprising nationally and globally significant biodiversity (Venkataraman and Wafar, 2005).It also supports almost 30% of its human population being dependent on …
